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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0015423 | AI War 1 / Classic | Suggestion - Balance Tweaks | Jun 14, 2014 6:51 pm | Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | |
| Reporter | TechSY730 | Assigned To | keith.lamothe | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 7.035 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 7.036 | ||||
| Summary | 0015423: EMP mines to paralysis damage, not EMP damage | ||||
| Description | EMP mines seem to do paralysis damage, not EMP damage, despite the mines' name. This seems confusing in terms of immunities. For example, most Spire ships are immune to paralysis, but not EMP, but won't touched by the effect of EMP mines, despite. I would suggest either making EMP mines do actual EMP damage, or renaming them Paralysis mines (or something similar). Right now, this is just confusing and not at all clear. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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Tested by unlocking EMP mines at the start of a game and waiting for a wave to come in. Saw that the countdown was the paralysis one, not the EMP ones. Also, saw that carriers and spire fleet ships were not being stopped by them, despite them not having EMP immunity (but they do have paralysis immunity). |
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stealth battleship is the big one in regards to this issue. while I understand emp causes paralysis, which it is immune to, emp is _also_ supposed to cancel cloaking- which is kinda important on this particular ship. Emp mines also don't appear to shut off forcefields (riot starship, etc.) from what I have seen but would need someone to do more testing of that. Alternative solution- rename them paralysis minefields. |
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I would be inclined to call this a GUI issue, rather than a balance issue. :P EMPs are exclusive to the warheads and guardians. Everything else in the game does paralysis. |
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For 7.036: * EMP Mines: ** Have been renamed to "Widow Mines" since they don't actually do the EMP effect, they just paralyze. ** In addition to the paralysis effect, these now do engine damage. Thanks :) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Jun 14, 2014 6:51 pm | TechSY730 | New Issue | |
| Jun 14, 2014 6:52 pm | TechSY730 | Note Added: 0038513 | |
| Jun 14, 2014 8:08 pm | malkiel | Note Added: 0038514 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 4:38 am | zharmad | Note Added: 0038524 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Internal Weight | => New |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Note Added: 0038527 | |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Status | new => resolved |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Fixed in Version | => 7.036 |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Resolution | open => fixed |
| Jun 18, 2014 10:33 am | keith.lamothe | Assigned To | => keith.lamothe |
